LEGO – Imagine by Jung von Matt | Great example of our visual intelligence

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A good read on this broad topic is the excellent book from Donald D. Hoffmann: Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

Not that great TED-Talk from the future: Peter Weyland at TED2023: I will change the world (by Ridley Scott)

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The good thing about fiction is that it reminds us that we still create the now and the future. Scott’s (and hey, I’m a big fan) melodramatic and not-very-well-visionized setting (all you see is here today) makes me look forward to a movie that I will enjoy, but that most likely won’t ask new questions and may provide no answers at all. This is still up to us…

UPDATE: well, maybe I’ll REALLY will enjoy this movie… (http://io9.com/5906286/shot+for+shot-break-down-of-all-the-new-alien-monsters…)

Fantastic Anatomical Cross-Sections made from Paper by Lisa Nilsson

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found by Peter Glaser

Hans Rosling: economies are made in bedrooms not markets (a story well told with mugs…)

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Amazing Animations: Drew Berry: Astonishing Molecular Machines

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Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs

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Read all about it here: http://kevinkarsch.com/publications/sa11.html

via @petapixel, @_skive_ and @junkafarian

Super Small: Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year | Wired Science

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‘Artificial leaf’ developed at MIT makes fuel from sunlight

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via TC – read about it here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/artificial-leaf-0930.html

AlphaDog Prototyp – another frightening robot by Boston Dynamics

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Remember BigDog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ&feature=relmfu)? Here’s the update…

Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies

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“Observers viewed the movie at top left while fixating on a central dot. The averaged high posterior (AHP) reconstructions are shown at left (see main text and Figure S2) for all three subjects S1, S2, and S3. The movies at right are the seven clips with the highest posterior probability, shown in order from most (left) to least (right) probable. The leftmost clip in this group is the MAP reconstruction, the single clip from the sampled prior that had the highest posterior probability. Note that all clips in the reconstructions are updated at 1 Hz, the BOLD signal sampling rate. The AHP reconstructions recover both the structure of the scenes and smooth changes over time (for example, see the spreading of the inkblot and the elephants moving across the scene).”

the freaking future is now – again…

I am a unicorn. AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other. / RT @TEDchris

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Discovery: A Visual Eulogy » ISO50 Blog (Scott Hansen)

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Space Shuttle Discovery 360VR of flight deck / Now that’s a serious interface / RT @DougCoupland

http://360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/discovery-cockpit_6236-8000r2.swf

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‪Bird flight deciphered‬‏ by Festo SmartBird – genius and beautiful.

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I’ve watched the videos of SmartBird some time ago and simply loved it – but seeing it flying over my head yesterday in Edinburgh at TEDGlobal is something different. I admire the team and Festo for making this happen.

Building Electronics and Lasers Atom by Atom

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full story here: http://t.co/ROPnrC7 (via TC)

First (known) weapon made entirely out of code/ scary Infographic&Animation about Stuxnet

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found by Scott Paterson

What was the last reality that you made up? | ARE ARTISTS LIARS? | Great article by Ian Leslie

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Great find by @mimiochun

The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science | By Chris Mooney | Good read for design researchers, too

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found by @Dothegreenthing and @workforcetrends

Amazing Electron-Microscope Images of Scorpions, Spiders and Sharks via Wired Science

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Stunning Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation – no 3D CGI was used.

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“…several thousand layers of many Cassini photographs were animated to make the fly-through work without any 3D CGI. …”

Watch HD and fullscreen.

Thanks Scott Underwood for sharing.

IBM Watson: The Face of Watson – see Joshua Davis in (inter)face heaven – like designing HAL today…

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Ultimate Map of North American English Dialects / with hundreds of audio and video samples / Geek stuff

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Solar System Scale Model – “possibly one of the largest pages on the web” / RT @brainpicker

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“… Unlike most models, which are compressed for viewing convenience, the planets here are also shown at their true-to-scale average distances from the Sun. That makes this page rather large – on an ordinary 72 dpi monitor it’s just over half a mile wide, making it possibly one of the largest pages on the web. …”

Bravo!

And don’t miss this collection: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/10/11/the-scale-of-the-universe/

American Sign Language (ASL) Recognition using Kinect Skeleton features (video)

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Done by researchers at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool / RT @psaffo

http://scale-of-universe.swf

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